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Aside from an easily-missed sidebar, there's nothing that indicates what flynn was. This happens a lot it seems with XXX is dead posts on HN. The link is to som

by dhosek 6y ago

Aside from an easily-missed sidebar, there's nothing that indicates what flynn was. This happens a lot it seems with XXX is dead posts on HN. The link is to something that says that XXX is dead but there's often little or no indication of what XXX was in the first place.

walski 6y ago
In this case there is a very recent version of their landing page on archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20210203121152/https://flynn.io/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210203121152/https://flynn.io/ (Not that the page had changed in any meaningful way in pretty much forever)
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sytse 6y ago
Their tagline was: “Flynn is an open source platform (PaaS) for running applications in production.” In some way an alternative for using Kubernetes and managed services of cloud providers. I think there is a need for something that is easier to use than Kubernetes. I’ve started the 5 minute production app for this. The idea is to use managed services and Terraform to make stateful services easy. This way you’re not locked in but have flexibility going forward.
- klohto 6y ago
  Go with Nomad then
riffic 6y ago
seriously the lack of context surrounding these sort of posts is lazy and awful.
- corobo 6y ago
  You can submit text or url mate. I would love to have given you context. I'm not going to cram a companies history into the title, it wouldn't have got any upvotes :) In simple terms it was a self hosted Heroku. It got massive attention here and raised a load of cash before kubernetes etc were a thing
  - einpoklum 6y ago
    I wonder about that... why can't you submit a couple of sentences of context with your URL? Even a single sentence would be better than the nothing we have now, where you need to guess what the URL is about.
    - corobo 6y ago
      I had no idea it wasn't possible either until submitting this, I just thought everyone was being lazy and assuming knowledge of a product as the person I responded to did with me haha
  - macintux 6y ago
    Sometimes people will post a quick comment after submitting a link indicating why they submitted it.
    - corobo 6y ago
      I got distracted and forgot about it till I saw it on the homepage
  - riffic 6y ago
    I didn't mean to pick on you specifically, it's just a trend symptomatic to posts on HN. People just tend to assume we know what a thing is just because it's been posted here.
maximilianroos 6y ago
Readme from before the change: https://github.com/flynn/flynn/blob/2c20757de8b32a40ba06f7e5b363b2d4dd6b332e/README.md https://github.com/flynn/flynn/blob/2c20757de8b32a40ba06f7e5...
imdsm 6y ago
That's fair, but I guess the people who will feel sad about this are the ones who know what it is/was. I remember back when it was being developed, along with Deis and later, Rancher. But the shadow of Kubernetes has caused them all to wither. :(

by dhosek 6y ago

walski 6y ago

In this case there is a very recent version of their landing page on archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20210203121152/https://flynn.io/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210203121152/https://flynn.io/ (Not that the page had changed in any meaningful way in pretty much forever)

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sytse 6y ago

Their tagline was: “Flynn is an open source platform (PaaS) for running applications in production.” In some way an alternative for using Kubernetes and managed services of cloud providers. I think there is a need for something that is easier to use than Kubernetes. I’ve started the 5 minute production app for this. The idea is to use managed services and Terraform to make stateful services easy. This way you’re not locked in but have flexibility going forward.

klohto 6y ago
Go with Nomad then

riffic 6y ago

seriously the lack of context surrounding these sort of posts is lazy and awful.

corobo 6y ago
You can submit text or url mate. I would love to have given you context. I'm not going to cram a companies history into the title, it wouldn't have got any upvotes :) In simple terms it was a self hosted Heroku. It got massive attention here and raised a load of cash before kubernetes etc were a thing
- einpoklum 6y ago
  I wonder about that... why can't you submit a couple of sentences of context with your URL? Even a single sentence would be better than the nothing we have now, where you need to guess what the URL is about.
  - corobo 6y ago
    I had no idea it wasn't possible either until submitting this, I just thought everyone was being lazy and assuming knowledge of a product as the person I responded to did with me haha
- macintux 6y ago
  Sometimes people will post a quick comment after submitting a link indicating why they submitted it.
  - corobo 6y ago
    I got distracted and forgot about it till I saw it on the homepage
- riffic 6y ago
  I didn't mean to pick on you specifically, it's just a trend symptomatic to posts on HN. People just tend to assume we know what a thing is just because it's been posted here.

maximilianroos 6y ago

Readme from before the change: https://github.com/flynn/flynn/blob/2c20757de8b32a40ba06f7e5b363b2d4dd6b332e/README.md https://github.com/flynn/flynn/blob/2c20757de8b32a40ba06f7e5...

imdsm 6y ago

That's fair, but I guess the people who will feel sad about this are the ones who know what it is/was. I remember back when it was being developed, along with Deis and later, Rancher. But the shadow of Kubernetes has caused them all to wither. :(